Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own… [TrailerAddict]

Review:

Quentin Tarantino‘s films are event films.Â Because he isn’t a “hired gun” director, Tarantino gets to take his time and make the movies he’s interested in making.Â He’s one of the few directors who works this way, and the only current director with his own style (granted his style is a mish mash of influence) and his own stamp on a film.Â You know when you’re watching a Quentin Tarantino movie.Â With only 5 previous films under his belt, Inglourious Basterds is Tarantino‘s 6th film (if you count the Kill Bill films as one film), his first period film, his first war film, and his finest film since Pulp Fiction.

With the Cannes premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds nearing, The Weinstein Company has released some new stills.Â These are pictures showing characters we haven’t really seen before, along with a badass picture of Brad Pitt.

Slashfilm had an exclusive look at a new character in Quentin Tarantion’s WWII film Inglourious Basterds (yes…the words are supposed to be mispelled).

Til Schweiger plays Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, an ex-Nazi who is recruited into the Basters unit.

Plot Synopsis:

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. [IMDB]

Shosanna Dreyfus is described as a French-Jewish girl who fled to France under a new identity after witnessing her family’s murder at the hands of Nazis. Now in France running a movie theater, she just may get a chance to exact her revenge when a group of German soldiers decide to stop in for a visit.

Looks like we’re getting character posters for Quentin Tarantino’s WWII opus Inglourious Basterds one-by-one.Â Last week, Brad Pitt’s emerged.Â This week, we get a look at Eli Roth.Â I absolutely love how the marketing is being handled for this movie!

Film School Rejects brings us what we SHOULD have seen on American Idol last night with Quentin Tarantino as the featured “mentor.” This is some awesome footage of Inglorious Basterds with a glimpse of an unrecognizable Mike Myers as Ed Fenech, a British General.

Speaking of American Idol, I’m amazed at the level of SUCK brought on by the god-awful song choices of the contestants.Â This is MUSIC in FILM and there is SO much to choose from.Â However they all (sans a brilliant, energetic performance by Adam Lambert) chose horribly boring ballads.